Brothels in the late Russian Empire

from Viewpoints – Placecloud (English) · host Siobhán Hearne

Vilnius Lithuania Brothels were everywhere in urban centres of the Russian Empire, and reactions to them were complicated and varied. This viewpoint focuses on one street in Vilnius in the early 1900s to examine the complex relationships between landlords, brothel madams, and the tsarist police.

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